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Discover the thrilling rise and fall of John Law, the mathematical genius and gambler whose invention of paper money transformed the world of global finance and banking while simultaneously plunging 18th-century France into economic chaos.

On the death of France's most glorious king, Louis XIV, in 1715, few people benefited from the shift in power more than the intriguing financial genius from Edinburgh, John Law. Already notorious for killing a man in a duel and for acquiring a huge fortune...

Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance

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